Missile Defense News

April 17, 2020

Russian anti-aircraft gunners repel enemy air attack in Arctic drills

TASS The personnel of the anti-aircraft missile battalion from the Northern Fleet’s separate motor rifle brigade repelled a notional enemy’s

April 17, 2020

Russia to test its first submarine-based hypersonic missiles

Russia Beyond The Zircon hypersonic missile has been sent for underwater testing on the Project 885 Yasen-class nuclear submarine, Russian media reported citing

April 17, 2020

China’s island fortifications are a challenge to international norms

Defense News While the world is combating the new coronavirus, COVID-19, China continues to fortify its islands in the South

April 16, 2020

Turkey repeats working group offer to U.S. to solve row over Russian defense purchase

AzerNews Turkey on Tuesday repeated an offer to the United States to establish a technical working group including NATO to

April 16, 2020

Nearly a dozen Iranian vessels come dangerously close to US military ships in the Gulf, Pentagon says

CNBC News WASHINGTON — Nearly a dozen vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy took “dangerous and provocative” actions near U.S.

April 16, 2020

Thornberry wants $6 billion this year to launch counter-China fund

DefenseNews WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee will release a proposal Thursday to formally create

April 16, 2020

Possible Chinese Nuclear Testing Stirs U.S. Concern

The Wall Street Journal China might be secretly conducting nuclear tests with very low explosive power despite Beijing’s assertions that

April 16, 2020

DRS Laurel to build 59 more AN/SPQ-9B shipboard missile-defense radar systems for cruisers and destroyers

Military & Aerospace Electronics U.S. Navy missile-defense experts are asking the DRS Laurel Technologies segment of Leonardo DRS in Johnstown, Pa., to

April 16, 2020

Destroyer USS Roosevelt Now in Europe, USS Porter Operating in Black Sea

USNI News Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is now operating in U.S. 6th Fleet as the newest hull in a

April 16, 2020

Hypersonics: 5 More Army-Navy Flight Tests By 2023

Breaking Defense “We need to accelerate the pace of testing,” the Army’s three-star director of hypersonics says. “Fourth quarter FY23 is when the Army

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